Three civilian whistleblowers employed by the U.S. Army have been granted a stay of disciplinary action against them in a proceeding before the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”), the administrative body responsible for resolving disputes between federal employees and government agencies.  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (“OSC”) requested the stay from the MSPB after [...]

According to a recently released Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) report entitled “Whistleblower Protection: Actions Needed to Improve DOD’s Military Whistleblower Reprisal Program,” the GAO has found numerous problems with how Department of Defense (“DOD”) and other military Inspectors General (“IGs”) are handling whistleblower cases.  The main problem identified in the report is that the DOD [...]